Rumpus Original
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The Empty-Nest Yard Sale
Talking to your kid can be as nerve-wracking as going in for a big job interview. And it’s also like interviewing a temperamental actor or rock star—you’re afraid if you ask the wrong thing, they’ll tear off their lapel mic…
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FUNNY WOMEN #103: Gertrude Stein Reviews Beer
If I drank it, would Napoleon, would he drink it if I liked him. Would Napoleon, would the top notes, would the caramel if I told him.
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The Rumpus Interview with Kurt Vile
We talk to indie-rock musician Kurt Vile about his recording process, life on the road, and the all-time best Dead Milkmen song.
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The Rumpus Interview with Ramona Ausubel
Our lives can be as wild or as wacky as Ramona Ausubel’s fictive worlds, but in the end, as one of her characters puts it, “Everyone wants to be alone in someone else’s heart.”
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #188
ROCKING CHAIRS ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing rocking chairs.
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Deep Throat #5: On Being and Unbeing a Singer
There is nothing I have experienced that is so physical, nothing that resonates in the bones and meat of a person like it does to make music with other people at that sort of level.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Rage
“The heart is a fist, and he taught me to make mine hard.” Laura Bogart makes her Rumpus debut, exploring the link between rage, power and grief.
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview with Cecil Castellucci
Cecil Castellucci, perhaps the most wonderfully prolific and brazenly genre-busting author in Los Angeles, has worn many hats in a celebrated life in the arts
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The Rumpus Interview with Daisy Fried
Poet Daisy Fried talks shop about the avoidance of being a Mommy Poet, machismo, how to create a poet advice columnist, and why “women’s poetry” is best compared to a tricked-out car.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Jeffrey Pethybridge
Jeffrey Pethybridge discusses his collection, Striven, The Bright Treatise, with The Rumpus Poetry Book Club.
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The Other Side of Nowhere
Our better life started in a small cockroach-infested apartment on the side of a highway in San Antonio, Texas. My mother’s homesickness was unbearable, and we almost went back to Poland. What some may not understand is that this pursuit…
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The Last City I Loved: Omaha, Nebraska
One can live and work in an unfettered way, or at least a way less fettered than is possible in any major metropolis.